Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Uemura
Tsuyoshi Uemura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230091120Abstract: A cleaning system includes a cleaning vehicle that cleans a predetermined travel route, and a control device. The cleaning vehicle includes a state detection device that detects a state of the travel route, and has a cleaning mode in which the cleaning is performed and a non-cleaning mode in which the cleaning is not performed. The control device executes inspection control for causing the state detection device to detect a state of a pre-set inspection region along the travel route while causing the cleaning vehicle to travel in the non-cleaning mode, specification control for specifying a cleaning required region, where the cleaning needs to be performed in the travel route, based on the state of the inspection region detected in the inspection control, and cleaning control for causing the cleaning vehicle to travel in the cleaning mode in the cleaning required region after the above-mentioned controls end.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Koichi Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Publication number: 20230084785Abstract: A cleaning system includes a cleaning vehicle that cleans a predetermined travel route, a maintenance facility provided at a specified position on the travel route and performs maintenance on the cleaning vehicle, and a control device that controls them. The control device executes interruption and maintenance control in response to a state of the cleaning vehicle satisfying a predetermined maintenance condition during execution of the cleaning by the cleaning vehicle. The interruption and maintenance control includes first control for interrupting the cleaning performed by the cleaning vehicle, causing the cleaning vehicle to move to the specified position, and causing the maintenance facility to perform the maintenance on the cleaning vehicle, and second control for causing, after the first control, the cleaning vehicle to move to an interruption position at which the cleaning was interrupted, and causing the cleaning vehicle to resume the cleaning from the interruption position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Koichi Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 10720593Abstract: A display device including a light emitting element including a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a plurality of organic layers including a hole transport layer above the first electrode, and a second electrode above the plurality of organic layers, and an insulation layer having an opening part exposing a part of the first electrode and covering a periphery side part of the first electrode, wherein when a hole mobility of the light emitting layer is ?h1 and a hole mobility of the hole transport layer is ?h2 then ? h ? ? 2 ? h ? ? 1 ? 10 3 and when a periphery length of the part of the first electrode exposed by the opening part is L and an area of the first electrode exposed by the opening part is S0 then L S 0 ? 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Publication number: 20190280238Abstract: A display device including a light emitting element including a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a plurality of organic layers including a hole transport layer above the first electrode, and a second electrode above the plurality of organic layers, and an insulation layer having an opening part exposing a part of the first electrode and covering a periphery side part of the first electrode, wherein when a hole mobility of the light emitting layer is ?h1 and a hole mobility of the hole transport layer is ?h2 then ? h ? ? 2 ? h ? ? 1 ? 10 3 and when a periphery length of the part of the first electrode exposed by the opening part is L and an area of the first electrode exposed by the opening part is S0 then L S 0 ? 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventor: Tsuyoshi UEMURA
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Patent number: 10274943Abstract: A control system for controlling transport devices includes a first server that has a first storage unit and a first instruction unit, and a second server that has a second storage unit and a second instruction unit. In a first state, the first storage unit transmits first transport information to the first instruction unit, the first instruction unit transmits second transport information to a target transport device, and instruction unit information is stored in common in the first instruction unit and the second instruction unit. If the first instruction unit stops operating normally in the first state, the control state is switched to a second state, and in the second state, the first storage unit transmits the first transport information to the second instruction unit, and the second instruction unit transmits the second transport information to the target transport device based on the instruction unit information.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Takahara, Tomoaki Nishikawa, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Publication number: 20180224839Abstract: A control system for controlling transport devices includes a first server that has a first storage unit and a first instruction unit, and a second server that has a second storage unit and a second instruction unit. In a first state, the first storage unit transmits first transport information to the first instruction unit, the first instruction unit transmits second transport information to a target transport device, and instruction unit information is stored in common in the first instruction unit and the second instruction unit. If the first instruction unit stops operating normally in the first state, the control state is switched to a second state, and in the second state, the first storage unit transmits the first transport information to the second instruction unit, and the second instruction unit transmits the second transport information to the target transport device based on the instruction unit information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Masahiro Takahara, Tomoaki Nishikawa, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 8130187Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal layer capable of bend orientation; a display screen on which an image is displayed by light transmitted through a bend-oriented liquid crystal layer; and liquid crystal voltage application means for applying a liquid crystal voltage to the liquid crystal layer according to luminance information for each field of image information composed of serial fields, the liquid crystal voltage being applied to cause transmittance of the light to change, thereby sequentially displaying the image corresponding to the fields of the image information, and when the luminance information changes between current and subsequent fields, the liquid crystal voltage application means applies the liquid crystal voltage which changes so as to have a value according to the luminance information by the time the liquid crystal voltage is applied for the subsequent field.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Nakao, Tsuyoshi Uemura, Seiji Kawaguchi, Junichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7960908Abstract: An organic EL display includes an organic EL element including a pair of electrodes and an emitting layer interposed therebetween and having an optical resonator structure, and a coloring layer facing the organic EL element. A wavelength ?res of a light component with the maximum intensity that the organic EL element emits in a normal direction is shorter than a wavelength at which the coloring layer exhibits the maximum transmittance.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Okutani, Hirofumi Kubota, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 7821489Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit and a display device for displaying the display data. The second processing unit is selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the second processing unit. The display drive unit is also selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Yoshihiro Gohara, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Shozo Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Publication number: 20090267101Abstract: A display includes pixels each of which contains a light emitting element and which are arranged in a matrix form, a light transmitting insulating layer which includes a back surface facing the light emitting element and a front surface as a light output surface, a beam-condensing element which is arranged on a back side of the insulating layer and increases a directivity of light emitted by the light emitting element to make the light incident on the insulating layer, and a diffusing element which is arranged on a front side of the insulating layer, diffuses light from the insulating layer, and output the diffused light to an external environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Tsuyoshi Uemura, Satoshi Okutani, Hirofumi Kubota, Naotada Okada, Junichi Tonotani
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Patent number: 7573193Abstract: An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second waveguide layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and a diffraction grating which is arranged on a back side of the second waveguide layer and faces the first waveguide layer, wherein a grating constant of the diffraction grating is defined such that a first-order diffracted light emerges from the second waveguide layer, the first-order diffracted light being generated when a light component having a highest intensity of light which propagates in an in-plane direction while causing multiple reflection in the first waveguide layer enters the diffraction grating.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignees: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Satoshi Okutani, Tsuyoshi Uemura, Hirofumi Kubota, Naotada Okada, Junichi Tonotani, Keiji Suzuki, Hideki Ookawa
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Patent number: 7548235Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit and a display device for displaying the display data. The second processing unit is selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the second processing unit. The display drive unit is also selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2005Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Yoshihiro Gohara, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Shozo Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 7464281Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit and a display device for displaying the display data. The second processing unit is selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the second processing unit. The display drive unit is also selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Yoshihiro Gohara, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Shozo Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 7432921Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit and a display device for displaying the display data. The second processing unit is selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the second processing unit. The display drive unit is also selectively inactivated and activated under control of the first processing unit to reduce power consumption in the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2005Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Yoshihiro Gohara, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Shozo Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 7402939Abstract: An organic EL display includes an insulating layer with light-transmission property, an organic EL element located on a back side of the insulating layer, a diffraction grating located on the back side of the insulating layer, and an optical film disposed on a front side of the insulating layer and including optically isotropic first portions and optically anisotropic second portions, the first and second portions forming boundaries inclined with respect to a main surface of the optical film.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Kubota, Satoshi Okutani, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Patent number: 7375463Abstract: An optical device includes a first waveguide layer in which multiple-beam interference occurs, a second wavelength layer which includes a back surface facing the first waveguide layer and a front surface as a light output surface, and an outcoupling layer which is disposed on a back side of the second waveguide layer and faces the first wave guide layer, wherein the outcoupling layer includes a first portion as a layer with light transmission property and second portions which are dispersed in the first portion and differ in optical property from the first portion, and wherein an array of the second portions forms a triangular lattice.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Uemura, Satoshi Okutani, Hirofumi Kubota, Muneharu Akiyoshi, Naotada Okada, Junichi Tonotani
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Publication number: 20070290607Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent display device, comprising a light-transmitting insulating layer, an organic electroluminescent element including a back side electrode arranged on the back side of the light transmitting insulating layer, a light-transmitting front side electrode interposed between the light-transmitting insulating layer and the back side electrode, and an organic material layer interposed between the front side electrode and the back side electrode and containing a light-emitting layer, and a three-dimensional diffraction element of a two-layer structure arranged on the optical path guiding the light emitted from the light-emitting layer included in the organic material layer to reach the light-transmitting insulating layer, wherein the three-dimensional diffraction element has a cross-sectional structure of a specified dielectric modulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Inventors: Naotada OKADA, Junichi Tonotani, Satoshi Okutani, Hiroshi Sano, Tsuyoshi Uemura, Muneharu Akiyoshi, Hirofumi Kubota
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Patent number: 7307683Abstract: A liquid crystal display element having pretilt angles and anchoring energies with respect to liquid crystal molecules that differ between a pair of opposed substrates, a liquid crystal display element having pretilt angles and anchoring energies with respect to liquid crystal molecules that vary at a same substrate, and an optically anisotropic film having a plurality of optically different regions is provided. Thus, a liquid crystal display element that has improved display characteristics, response, and the like can be obtained. Methods of producing such liquid crystal display elements and such an optically anisotropic film are provided. The production methods are simply carried out utilizing the irradiation of polarized light. Thus, the present invention is of great value to industry.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaiki Nomura, Kazufumi Ogawa, Tadashi Otake, Takako Takebe, Tsuyoshi Uemura
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Publication number: 20070176888Abstract: There are disclosed methods for driving liquid crystal display apparatuses for certainly completing in a short time to performing a transition of liquid crystal molecules to a displayable alignment in liquid crystal display apparatuses such that an initial alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is different from the displayable alignment, typically an optically compensated bend mode liquid crystal display apparatus. A voltage is applied to a liquid crystal layer until display area in the liquid crystal layer is transformed to the displayable alignment. After the completion of the transition, a backlight is switched on to shift to a display-driving mode. In order to complete the transition in a short time, voltage pulse under the conditions (such as a frequency and a voltage value) determined in accordance with a temperature of a liquid crystal panel is applied to the liquid crystal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuji Hattori, Shoichi Ishihara, Tsuyoshi Uemura, Kenji Nakao, Yoshinori Tanaka, Keisuke Tsuda, Yukio Numata, Mika Nakamura, Junichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7250326Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming a transparent conductive film at a low temperature that is suitable for use with a synthetic resin substrate. According to the production method of a substrate with an electrode of the present invention, an oxide conductive film composed of an amorphous material or mainly composed of an amorphous material is formed on a substrate at a temperature equal to or less than the crystallization temperature of the film, and subsequently, the formed oxide conductive film is crystallized by heating. The oxide conductive film is processed into the shape of an electrode either before or after crystallization, according to necessity.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2003Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naomi Kaneko, Naohide Wakita, Hiroshi Satani, Tsuyoshi Uemura